Intresting Image Recognition

[Kamikazebob]

A friend linked me to this and I found it very cool.

http://tineye.com/widgets/display?mona

Using some kind of algorithm it basically looks all over google to find websites that are using a specific image or any related to it. The site explains it much better than I do. Its still in closed beta but I'm attempting to get an invite but if anyone else has heard of it/ has beta, how is it actually? You can apply for private beta as well.

[Elwell]

There's a discussion of it here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128562). I've been using it for about a week (they respond to invite requests pretty quickly), and found some interesting stuff (Iranian editions of books I've done covers for?!). It's a really nifty bit of tech, the problem now is that they still have only indexed a tiny fraction of the images on the web. Once they get it up to the equivalent of Google-sized territory it should be dynamite.

[Kamikazebob]

Hey, thanks Elwell. I thought I saw it somewhere else before, I guess I just didn't search well enough.

[Kielbasa]

Looks exactly like what they need for an orphan works registry...